While I'll make no comment on the band Ghost or their music (since I've never heard them), I was still surprised to see a band who I see mentioned here on the NWN forum is playing at a festival with ERIC CHURCH. He's quite popular down here in the south, kind of new school country with a Christian edge (hence the Church last name?). The spraytan blond Nashville women I know from my job are into Eric Church. That's not a good sign that Ghost is playing a festival with him.

I don't think "staying true" is about not achieving any success or turning down reasonable offers to play festivals that make sense, but I just can't see a metal band doing this back in the day. Meaning, if they had some bullshit ass music fest in the US with lots of random bands of every type of music, I don't see Mercyful Fate being like "Yeah, we'll play it". From what I remember (of the 90s) that's the whole point of that Lollapalooza fest, is to 'break down musical walls', but again, mixing Eric Church and some 'pseudo satanic metal band' like Ghost just seems silly.

These days it seems like bands will do anything for a bit of money and an audience, even if it isn't an audience that will appreciate them. To me, that makes no sense.

While I'll make no comment on the band Ghost or their music (since I've never heard them), I was still surprised to see a band who I see mentioned here on the NWN forum is playing at a festival with ERIC CHURCH. He's quite popular down here in the south, kind of new school country with a Christian edge (hence the Church last name?). The spraytan blond Nashville women I know from my job are into Eric Church. That's not a good sign that Ghost is playing a festival with him.

I don't think "staying true" is about not achieving any success or turning down reasonable offers to play festivals that make sense, but I just can't see a metal band doing this back in the day. Meaning, if they had some bullshit ass music fest in the US with lots of random bands of every type of music, I don't see Mercyful Fate being like "Yeah, we'll play it". From what I remember (of the 90s) that's the whole point of that Lollapalooza fest, is to 'break down musical walls', but again, mixing Eric Church and some 'pseudo satanic metal band' like Ghost just seems silly.

These days it seems like bands will do anything for a bit of money and an audience, even if it isn't an audience that will appreciate them. To me, that makes no sense.

In 1993 I went to the Roskilde festival in Denmark and Mercyful Fate played on the main stage at 3 in the morning right after a long set by Parliament Funkadelic. One of the other nights Peter Gabriel was the headliner followed by a very late night set by No Means No. It also had Sepultura, Accept, Rollins band, but also Dwight Yokam, a symphony doing Carmina Bourana, Bjork, some finnish accapella mens choirs and super mainstream stuff like ZZ Top and Aereosmith. At the time Lollapalloza was big in the states and thought it was risque to booking stuff like Fishbone/Dinosaur Jr./Tool/Front 242.

Just pointing out that metal bands have been doing this kind of diverse festival for ages, but it took Lollapallooza/US audiences a long time to catch up to the kind of diversity offered at some that some European rock fests have been doing for decades already.

I still don't like Ghost however._________________"...that magnificent deer has vanished."